Some wise remarks about banks

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.
Bob Hope

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Thomas Jefferson

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Bertolt Brecht

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain